speeding up hard drive wipe

Chris Green cl at isbd.net
Sat Sep 26 20:56:41 UTC 2020


On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 04:56:39PM -0300, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 16:24:25 +0100
> Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 12:10:45PM -0300, J. Paul Bissonnette wrote:
> > > On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 13:48:58 +0100
> > > Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > >    
> > > > I absolutely agree.  I think people have a rather inflated idea
> > > > of how valuable their 'information' is! :-)  Even a disk full of
> > > > deleted (by the OS) files will take a huge amount of time to
> > > > extract anything useful from.
> > > >   
> > > If one is paranoid about data security take a look at the so called
> > > smart phone you use. Everything you do and say can be traced on an
> > > iPhone or Android.
> > >   
> > I don't use a smartphone, partly for the above reason.
> 
> Even the one time "secure" Blackberry is using Ad-droid
> 
Yes, but if I don't put any information onto the phone then there's
nothing there for anyone to extract.  There's not even my location
because most of the time I don't have the phone with me!

-- 
Chris Green




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